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With a deep snowpack covering TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, it might be hard for golf fans to think of warm sunshine and green grass. But the Travelers Championship got some major commitments Tuesday, a reminder that golf season eventually will be here. Two-time Masters champion Bubba Watson, who recorded his first PGA Tour victory in the 2010 Travelers Championship, defending champion Kevin Streelman, and Jason Day have committed to play in the tournament June 25-28. Watson is No. 2 and Day is No. 4 in the World Golf rankings. Watson ranks second in earnings this season ($2,140,950). Day won the Farmers Insurance Open and tied for fourth in the AT&T Pebble Beach National...

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With a deep snowpack covering TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, it might be hard for golf fans to think of warm sunshine and green grass.But the Travelers Championship got some major commitments Tuesday, a reminder that golf season eventually will be here....

The Mohegan Sun is having a press conference Wednesday. The expected announcement: the WNBA All-Star Game is returning to the casino this year. ... Tired of ice fishing; Opening Day of trout fishing season has been moved from the third to second...

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Enjoying the best weather Pebble Beach has to offer is one thing. Brandt Snedeker knew he had to take advantage of it with his golf clubs, too.Snedeker played bogey-free at Spyglass in abundant sunshine and warmth Friday for a...

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Sunshine is always a pleasant surprise at Pebble Beach, and Thursday brought a real stunner: John Daly was near the top of the leaderboard.With his best opening round on the PGA Tour in nearly 10 years, Daly kept a clean card at...

WINDERMERE, Fla. —Tiger Woods fizzled out in his return to competitive golf as a slew of miscues left him in last place after the opening round of the Hero World Challenge on Thursday, well back of leader Jordan Spieth.Woods, who had not played...

Andre Drummond was selected to fill the 12th and final spot on the USA Basketball roster. It's a great accomplishment for the man from Middletown, who attended Capital Prep-Hartford, St. Thomas More and UConn before going to the NBA. "Maybe it kind...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Phil Mickelson almost made up for his uncharacteristically quiet performances at major championships this year with one eventful day.Mickelson's 4-under 67 featured near misses on eagle putts on Nos. 7 and 18 as well as consecutive...

No one has to remind Rory McIlroy that his sport is lacking something vital right now.
With Tiger Woods hobbled by injury and Phil Mickelson not getting any younger, golf has lost much of its star power. McIlroy — the current No. 1 player — senses the...

It was well beyond just a good day at Riviera on Thursday, and not just because the weather for the first round of the Northern Trust Open was Southern California perfect.
Gary Player was in the house.
There is nobody quite like him. Lunch with him is a...

The sore back was bad enough.
Now it seems a different sort of pain — wayward drives and shaky chip shots — has gotten the best of Tiger Woods.
The former No. 1 player announced Wednesday that he will take an indefinite, though potentially brief,...

Sunshine is always a pleasant surprise at Pebble Beach, and Thursday brought a real stunner: John Daly was near the top of the leaderboard.
With his best opening round on the PGA Tour in nearly 10 years, Daly kept a clean card at Pebble Beach on a...

There has been a lot talk about golf's future as the sport fades into life after Tiger and Phil.
Epitaphs have already been posted as the world reflects on a lopsided rivalry that produced 19 major championships.
The future, in fact, may look a lot like...

Brandt Snedeker broke his own scoring record and won the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am for the second time in three years.
Snedeker played bogey-free in the final round Sunday and left the mistakes to everyone else. He closed with a...

The fog began to roll in off the coast of Pebble Beach, though it didn't matter. Brandt Snedeker had the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in hand, and he had a clear view of where he was going. There is no better wait than on the 18th tee at Pebble...

Brandt Snedeker won the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am two years ago and moved to a career-best No. 4 in the world, making him the highest-ranked American behind only Tiger Woods. Snedeker now is one spot behind Woods in the ranking, and that's not...

Coming off the worst season of his career, Brandt Snedeker's mission was to become relevant again. He was eligible for only one major and none of the World Golf Championships, and he hated the idea of the world's best players competing without him. That's...

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. Jim Furyk's season debut is proving to be one for the birds. Make that birdies. The 44-year-old Furyk, who hasn't played competitively since October, shot a 9-under 63 Saturday at Pebble Beach Golf Links a lifetime best for...

PEBBLE BEACH, Fla. Brandt Snedeker won the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am title by three shots with a tournament-record total of 22-under-par 265. Snedeker had a final round of 5-under 67 at Pebble Beach Golf Links, earning his seventh career...

Ernie Els returned to Spyglass Hill for nine holes of practice at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and nothing looked familiar to him. Of course, there's a reason for that. Els had not been to Spyglass since he was 14. He came over to the...

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. The AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am teed off Thursday without golf's three biggest names: Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Rory McIlroy. The iconic void has been a bit of buzzkill, though there are still reasons to make the...